Background
Louis Désiré Véron was born at Paris on the 5th of April 1798.
(Excerpt from Revue de Paris, 1839, Vol. 9 M. Adair invi...)
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Louis Désiré Véron was born at Paris on the 5th of April 1798.
In 1829 he founded the Revue de Paris, and from 1838 to 1852 was owner and director of the Constitutionnel, in which he published in Eugene Sue's Wandering Jew. It was also during Veron's direction and at his suggestion that Sainte-Beuve contributed the Causeries du lundi. From 1831-1835 he was director of the Paris Opera. In 1852 he was elected to the Corps Legislatif as an official candidate. He was the author of various books, of which the best known is Memoires d'un bourgeois de Paris (1853 - 1855). He died in Paris on the 27th of September 1867.
(Excerpt from Revue de Paris, 1839, Vol. 9 M. Adair invi...)
Véron was eccentric in his appearance and behaviour.
Quotes from others about the person
A contemporary, Philarete Chasles, describes him as follows:
"Ruddy, with a pock-marked face, barely any nose, scrofulous, his neck enfolded in cloth that protected and hid his affliction, pot-bellied; [. .. ] mouth smiling, lips thick, hair rare, eyebrows absent, dressed like a little lackey aping his master and with the affectations and the mincing airs of the salon (quoted in Kelly, 2004). "
